2 Chronicles
Chapter Eight
1 ¶ It came to pass
at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the LORD
and his own house,
2 that the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them; and
he settled the children of Israel there.
3 And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and seized it.
4 He also built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities which he
built in Hamath.
5 He built Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon, fortified cities with walls,
gates, and bars,
6 also Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot
cities and the cities of the cavalry, and all that Solomon desired to build
in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
7 All the people who were left of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites,
and Jebusites, who were not of Israel-
8 that is, their descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the
children of Israel did not destroy-from these Solomon raised forced labor, as
it is to this day.
9 But Solomon did not make the children of Israel servants for his work. Some
were men of war, captains of his officers, captains of his chariots, and his
cavalry.
10 And others were chiefs of the officials of King Solomon: two hundred and
fifty, who ruled over the people.
11 Now Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to
the house he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in
the house of David king of Israel, because the places to which the ark of the
LORD has come are holy."
12 ¶ Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the
LORD which he had built before the vestibule,
13 according to the daily rate, offering according to the commandment of Moses,
for the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the three appointed yearly feasts-the Feast
of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
14 And, according to the order of David his father, he appointed the divisions
of the priests for their service, the Levites for their duties (to praise and
serve before the priests) as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers
by their divisions at each gate; for so David the man of God had commanded.
15 They did not depart from the command of the king to the priests and Levites
concerning any matter or concerning the treasuries.
16 Now all the work of Solomon was well-ordered from the day of the foundation
of the house of the LORD until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was
completed.
17 Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and Elath on the seacoast, in the land of
Edom.
18 And Hiram sent him ships by the hand of his servants, and servants who knew
the sea. They went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and acquired four
hundred and fifty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.
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